What language is this?

Calling all language experts… can you identify what language is written on the bottom of this sign?

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The photo accompanied a piece in last weekend’s LA Times, about the death of illegal immigrants in the Arizaona desert.

The languages are, in order, English, Spanish Latin American and…. the third is anyone’s guess.

Do you recognise the last language? Leave a comment and let us know.

8 comments

  1. Chris says:

    It’s Tohono O’odham. See herefor further discussion. See Ethnologue report here.

  2. gabrielacastro.com says:

    Hi all!

    It is hard to tell… I am a language expert (in my lang pair), which does not mean I know how all languages look like! Who has an answer for this? Now, I am intrigued!

  3. gabrielacastro.com says:

    This post called my attention. My friend JC says it is a native American language called O’odham that has two dialects known as Papago and Pima. It also makes sense due to the area. What do you think?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27odham_language

  4. Esther says:

    I don’t know which language it is… But the Spanish paragraph (the 2nd one) looks awful!! :-(

  5. To confirm, this was not an Applied Language Solutions supplied translation. :)

  6. translation fee says:

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  7. Must be one of those 3000+ languages that are in the world that have less than 1000 native speakers…
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